Finding A Job With A High School vs. College Graduation
Whether you choose to enter the job market with a high school vs. college graduation under you belt can have a very significant impact on the jobs you will be able to do and the amount of money you will be able to make.
According to a report entitled The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings, a person with a high school degree can expect to earn an average of $1.2 million over the course of their working life, and a person with a bachelors degree can expect to earn an average of $2.1 million dollars over the same period of time. The report estimates that people with a masters degree will earn an average of $2.5 million, people with doctoral degrees will earn an average of $3.4 million dollars, and those who get professional degrees will earn the most, an average of $4.4 million.
That said, all those figures are an average, so it doesnt mean they are written in stone. There are good-paying careers you might pursue with only a high school diploma. Construction contractors can make a lot of money. So can entrepreneurs, small business owners or investors. All of...